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To ENTERPRISE, v. a. To undertake ; to attempt; 
to eduy.—Princes were only chiefs of thofe aflemblies, by 
whofe confultations and authority the great a&ions were 
refolved and enterprifed. Temple. 
Hade then, and lofe no time : 
The bufinefs mud be enterpris'd this night; 
We mud furprife the court in its delight. Dryden. 
To receive ; to entertain. Obfolete: 
•In goodly garments, that her well became, 
Fair marching forth in honourable wife, 
Him at the thrediold met, and well did enterprife. Spenfer. 
ENTERPRISER, f A man of enterprife ; one who 
undertakes great things ; one who engages himfelf in im¬ 
portant and dangerous defigns.—They commonly proved 
great enterprifers with happy fuccefs. Hayward. 
To ENTERTA'IN, v.a. [ entretenir , Fr.] To converfe 
with ; to talk with.—His head was fo well dored a ma¬ 
gazine, that nothing could be propofed which he was not 
readily furnidted to enteriain any one in. Locke. —To treat 
at the table.—You (hall find an apartment fitted up for 
you, and fhall be every day entertained with beef or mut¬ 
ton of my own feeding. Addifon. —To receive hofpitably. 
—Be not forgetful to entertain drangers ; for thereby fome 
have entertained angels unawares. Heb. xiii. 2. 
Heaven, fet ope thy everlading gates. 
To entertain my vows of thanks and praife. Shakefpeare. 
To keep in one’s fervice.—You, fir, I entertain for one of 
my hundred ; only I do not like the fathion of your gar¬ 
ments. Shakefpeare. —To referve in the mind.—This pur- 
pofe God can entertain towards us. Decay of Piety. —To 
pleafe ; to amufe ; to divert.—The hidory of the Royal 
Society fliews how well philofophy becometh a narration! 
the progrefs of knowledge is as entertaining as that of arms. 
■Felton. —To admit with fatisfafition.—Reafon can never 
permit the mind to entertain probability in oppofition to 
knowledge and certainty. Locke .— To make choice of : 
But when he lookt about on every fyde. 
To weet which way were bed to entertaine. 
To bring him to the place where he would faine, 
He could no path nor traft of foot defery. Spenfer. 
ENTERTA'IN,y. Entertainment: 
But neede, that anfwers not to all requeds, 
Bad them not looke for better entertaine. Spenfer. 
ENTERTA'INER,^. He that keeps others in his fer¬ 
vice.—He was, in his nature and conditution of mind, not 
very apprehenfive or forecading of future events afar off, 
but an entertainer of fortune by the day. Bacon. —He that 
treats others at his table.—It is little the fign of a wife or 
good man to fuffer temperance to be tranfgrefied, in order 
to purchafe the repute of a generous entertainer. Atterbury. 
—He that pleafes, diverts, or amufes. 
ENTERTA'INMENT,y". Converfation. Treatment 
at the table ; convivial provifion : 
With Britifh bounty in his fhip he feads 
Th’ Hefperian princes, his amazed gueds, 
To find that wat’rv wildernefs exceed 
The entertainment of their great Madrid. Waller. 
Hofpitable reception. Reception; admidion.—It is not 
eafy to imagine how it (hould at fird gain entertainment , 
but much more difficult to conceive how it fhould be 
univerfally propagated. Tillotfon .— The date of being in 
pay as foldiers or fervants.—Have you an army ready, fay 
you ?-A mod royal one. The centurions and their 
charges diftinttly billetted, already in the entertainment , 
and to be on foot at an hour’s warning. Shakefpeare .— 
Payment of foldiers or fervants. Now obfolete. —The 
captains did covenant with the king to ferve -him with 
certain numbers of men, for certain wages and entertain¬ 
ment. Davies. —Amufement; diverfion. — Pafiions ought 
to be our fervants, and not our maders; to give us fome 
agitation for entertainment } but never to throw reafon out 
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of its feat. Temple.— Dramatic performance ; the lower 
comedy.—A great number of dramatic entertainments are 
not comedies, but five-adl farces. Gay. 
To ENTERTA'KE, v. a. To entertain ; to receive.— 
And with more myld afpefil thofe two to entertake. Spenfer. 
ENTERTIS'SUED, adj. [entre and tiffue, Fr.] Enter- 
woven or intermixed with various colours or fubdances : 
The fword, the mace, the crown imperial. 
The entertijfued robe of gold and pearl. Shakefpeare. 
ENTERVIEW', f. in falconry, is the fecond year of 
a hawk’s age. 
To ENTHAL'MIZE, v. a. [from enthalmizo , Lat.] To 
bring the bride and bridegroom to the bedchamber. Scott. 
Not much ufed. 
ENTHE'AL, adj. [from tv, in, and 6 eo;, Gr. God.] 
Divinely infpired. 
ENTHEAS'TICAL, or Entheated, adj. Infpired; 
divinely infpired. Scott. Not much ufed. 
ENTHE'MA,y. [from tv, in, and Tifbjjtu, Gr. to place.] 
With phyficians, a medicine to dop bleeding. 
ENTHE'MATA, f. [from tv, in, andGr. to 
place.] Grafts inferted into the Hits of trees. Not ufed. 
To ENTHRO'NE, v. a. To place on a regal feat: 
Mercy is above this feepter’d fway : 
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings ; 
It is an attribute to God himfelf. Shakefpeare. 
To inved with fovereign authority.—This pope was no 
fooner elefted and enthroned, but that he began to exercife 
his new rapines. Ayliffe. 
To ENTHRO'NIZE, v. a. To enthrone : 
Right princely virtue, fit to reign, 
Entkroniz'd in her fplrit remain. Davis's Afrit a. 
ENTHU'SIASM,y. [ enthufafmus , Lat. from tvQaerva-ty, 
Gr. to rave.] A vain belief of private revelation; a 
vain confidence of divine favour or communication.— 
Enthufiafm is founded neither on reafon nor divine revela¬ 
tion, but rifes from the conceits of a warmed or over¬ 
weening brain. Locke. —Heat of imagination ; violence of 
padion ; confidence of opinion.—Elevation of fancy ; ex¬ 
altation of ideas.—Imaging is, in itfelf, the very height 
and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthufafm, or ex¬ 
traordinary emotion of foul, makes it feem to us that we 
behold thofe things which the poet paints. Dryden. 
ENTHU'SIAST, f. [svSetnxa, Gr.] One who vainly 
imagines a private revelation, or who has a vain confi¬ 
dence of his intercourfe with God.—Let an enthufaf be 
principled that he or his teacher is infpired, and adted by 
an immediate communication of the Divine Spirit, and you 
in vain bring the evidence of clear reafon againd his doc¬ 
trine. Locke.— One of a hot imagination, or violent paf- 
fions.—Chapman feems to have been of an arrogant turn, 
and an enthufaf in poetry. Pope. —One of elevated fancy, 
or exalted ideas : 
Divine Cecilia came, 
Inventrefs of the vocal frame ; 
The fweet enthufaf , from her facred dore, 
Enlarg’d the former narrow bounds, 
And added length to folemn founds, 
With nature’s mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Dryd. 
ENTHUSIAS'TIC, or Enthusiastical, adj. [from 
Evfiacriarixo;, Gr. ] Perfuaded of fome communication with 
the deity.—He pretended not to any feraphic enthufaf ical 
raptures or inimitable unaccountable tranfports of devo¬ 
tion. Calamy .—Vehemently hot in any caufe. Elevated 
in fancy; exalted in ideas.—An enthufaf ic or prophetic 
dyle, by reafon of the eagernefs of the fancy, doth not 
always follow the even thread of difeourfe. Burnet. 
At lad, fublim’d 
To rapture and enthufaf ic heat, 
We feel tluf prefent Deity. Themfon. 
EN'THYMEME, f. [evSv^^a, Gr.] In logic, an ar¬ 
gument cohfiding only of an antecedent and confequential 
propofition ; 
